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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not much. Oxygen is much lower on the list of priorities than capitalism and pluralphobia.

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  • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You technically answered my question, but that verges in strawman territory, man. I was talking about the absurdity of considering gravity a form of human oppression. Can you tell me why I shouldn’t see it as absurd, given that it’s a natural, inescapable law?

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t really care whether you see gravity as inescapable (though I’m glad the Wright brothers didn’t), but there are other “natural, inescapable laws” that are completely fake, and some people cause a lot of harm by attacking those who break them. And so I want you to be open to the concept of people accomplishing the impossible, so that you won’t be one of those people.

      For example, gender essentialists claim that sex is a “natural, inescapable law”. And that makes them transphobic. Species essentialists claim that species is a “natural, inescapable law”, and not just a convenient social construct biologists use to make their jobs easier. And that makes them kinphobic.

      I want you to open your mind to the impossible and question everything.

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      • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I want you to open your mind to the impossible and question everything.

        I can certainly do that.

        I don’t really care whether you see gravity as inescapable

        Well, this is not helping.

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        But sorry, absolutely no one can escape gravity. It’s everywhere in the universe. Can you escape Earth’s gravity? Sure. Good luck escaping the solar system’s gravity, or the galaxy’s gravity, or the local cluster’s gravity. So that’s my point. The Wright Brothers “example” is a non-starter.

        Everything else you mentioned are not “natural laws.” They are human/social constructs, which you pointed out and we can agree on.

        But I thought soulism went beyond that. It’s okay. Today I learned something new. Thanks.

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